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Monday, May 24, 2010

The Start of Summer in the North

Summer in Canada traditionally starts with Victoria Day.
We’ve had a fabulous early spring with warm dry weather – too dry for the local farmers. This weekend temperatures have soared to 30C with good winds filling in for the afternoon up to 12 knots. Needless to say, the sailing on the Ottawa river has been wonderful. Our little Tanzer 26 (10’ shorter and 10’ narrower than Mowzer) is in the water, fully masted and rigged, and yesterday we enjoyed a lively sail up to Pinhey’s Point with the wind abeam from the south. It doesn’t get more perfect than that – up here.
The next few months will be spent enjoying the summer weather that we get from May through August but never far from mind is the next vacation on Mowzer. To that end, we’ve enlisted the company of Eleanor and John to join us on our next trip south. Let the trip-planning begin … without too much of a schedule!

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Catherine & Henry: We purchased our first boat, a Tanzer 26 in 2007 and sailed her during the summer on the Ottawa River. We then purchased Mowzer in 2009 and started off by getting into the charter business with CYOA. Over the next few years we spent our allotted time aboard learning as much as we could before we set off by ourselves. We finally 'cut the dock lines' as they say and moved aboard in October 2014.

Catherine: Trained in Math & Comp Sci, worked most recently (15 years) in high tech as an HR systems architect, interested in photography, sewing (learning canvas repair), languages, hiking, snorkelling and wants to learn more about diesel engines.

Henry: Trained as an Engineer and worked many years in high tech as a network planner, took a career turn and worked at Home Depot (as a job he could do anywhere in the world), interested in exploration, hiking, cooking, and sports.